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Volume 21, Fall 2007 PUBLISHED YEARLY FOR THE BROWN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ALUMNI NEWSLETTER volume 21 I fall 2007 history newsletter contents chair’s letter ...................... 2 faculty books ...................... 5 new faculty ........................ 8 faculty activities .................. 9 graduate program article .... 20 undergraduate program article ................ 23 NEWSLETTER A WORD FROM THE (NEW) CHAIR By way of introduction to you, the reader, I came to Brown in as Dean of the College (from the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and have been with the history department here since . For the past seven years, I have reported to you as director of undergraduate studies, a position I reluctantly surrendered to my most promising successor, Professor Nancy Jacobs. For most of my career, I have worked in ancient Greek history, with a specialty in historiography and intellectual history. In recent years, I have also taught and written in the field of American Transcendentalism. Emerson, I discovered, was largely a nineteenth century Neo-Platonist. Having been at Brown twelve years, I have only known two department chairs in History: Charles Neu and James McClain. From personal experience, I appreciate how difficult a position it is (everyone knows the definition of an academic department chair: someone who tries to herd cats) and was amazed that both my predecessors could each serve two terms. Charles retired a few years ago and received much deserved praise. Jim, who fortunately is remaining on staff, certainly deserves no less. Under his guidance, we have hired a large group of new colleagues in diverse fields and have added a number of equally distinguished faculty as joint appointments that are shared with other departments. He has led us in far-ranging discussions about our intellectual direction and in the design of new curricula for our undergraduate and graduate programs. The number of undergraduates taking our courses has never been higher and the quality of our graduate students never stronger. Just as Jim has left the department in good health, there are still many exciting challenges in front of us. Faced with a number of retirements of senior faculty, we will be making several replacements at the highest level, followed by a number of more junior appointments. This will certainly command much of our attention. This year saw the passing of long-retired Professor Emeritus Bryce Lyon. Said one of our colleagues: “Bryce was an erudite and prolific scholar and led the Brown History Department out on to the field the way the Gipper (the first one, not Reagan) led Notre Dame into battle against Michigan. God rest you, Bryce!” Many alumni/ae will remember Professor Lyon as a commanding presence in the classroom. “Our Correspondent”—one of our own who wishes to remain anonymous—reports on the remarkable move of Peter Green House (known to older readers as the Lippit-Guild House). The purpose of the move, to the other side of Sharpe House, is to clear a path that will more easily connect Pembroke Campus to the Main Green. While this has forced half of us to take up not quite luxurious temporary quarters in a science building (Metcalf) that has seen better days (complete with a de-tox shower in the bathroom!), it has served the inevitably positive purpose of making us pack up all our belongings and (perhaps) discard 2 volume 21 I fall 2007 some of our accumulated debris. “History on the Move” is our captioned title of the picture of Green House. Embracing the new as well as the past sustains thriving individuals, and departments, too. Also noteworthy in these pages is a lamentably, but necessarily for copyright reasons, all too brief excerpt from Gordon Wood’s forthcoming work. The full piece, I assure you, is especially thought- provoking and well worth the read. At the end of this year, we will bid Professor Wood adieu after his thirty-eight years of teaching at Brown. His book of essays demonstrates that he has no intention of slowing down. Green House, however, has finally slowed down, and is now in place at our new address: Brown Street. Stop by and visit. Ken Sacks Cover image: The Peter Green House Move By “Our Correspondent” The main office of the Department of History, the Peter Green House, weighs an estimated tons.This factoid matters because in June and July, they picked it up and moved it. The university’s planned “Cross-Campus Walkway” required the site at Angell Street as open space, but the historic Peter Green House was deemed worth saving at an estimated cost of $ million, including renovations (according to the Providence Journal). The move entailed jacking the building off its foundations, inserting wheels beneath it, connecting three cables pulled by winches, rotating it degrees, and pulling it feet to the corner of Brown and Angell. In short, the Peter Green House moved from one side of Sharpe House (the yellow History Department building) to the other, but it now faces Brown rather than Angell.In Rhode Island parlance, it moved from next to where the Shell Station used to be to where the parking lot used to be. (The Shell Station was demolished in to make way for a big science building.) The move created a modicum of excitement in our Department. Those with offices in the Peter Green House packed up and moved to temporary quarters in May. Faculty occupying Sharpe House remained in place and were treated in June to the sights and sounds of construction on both sides. Some faculty members, remarkably, retained their usual focus and were unmoved by the spectacle.Others approached it in ways not entirely unrelated to their professional work. Many documented the event with photographs. Several brought their children for the educational value. One historian, watching the preparatory work for weeks, devised life histories for the workers. An historian of science was particularly fascinated with the technology. A Department member with fieldwork experience managed, through patient habituation of the crew, to twice enter the site for up-close appreciation of the heavy machinery. For their part, graduate students dis cussed those developments visible from the “ivory cubby” on the top floor of Sharpe. The big trucks are gone now. The Peter Green House stands high on temporary blocks, awaiting completion of the new foundation. The Pavilion Room and side porch nowgrace Angell Street, offering traffic an unfamiliar vista. The Department hopes to reoccupy the old house early next year. 3 history newsletter LETTER FROM GORDON WOOD The following is a brief extract from Gordon Wood’s forthcoming book, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Writing of History (Penguin Press, ). The columnist “Bagehot” in a recent issue of the British magazine The Economist suggested that in British eyes both the people of the United States and their president were “too bombastic, myopically self-assured, lacking a tragic view of life.” This is a common European view of Americans. But what does it mean to lack a tragic view of life, and what does such a tragic view have to do with the discipline of history? When properly understood, history lends itself to a tragic view of life. A tragic view of life does not mean a sad or pessimistic view of life; instead, it means a sense of the limitations of life. Most Americans, however, are not very historically minded and thus most lack a tragic view of life, meaning most do not possess a very keen sense of the limitations of life. This is not a partisan issue. In this respect Michael Moore is no different from George W. Bush. Of course, for the most part the lack of a sense of the limitations of life is an asset, since this is what makes us Americans such an optimistic and go-getting kind of people. But it also tends to make us brash and arrogant, full of confidence in our ability to change the world and control our destinies. History as a discipline tends to counter these tendencies of arrogance and overconfidence. By describing with sympathy the blindness and folly of people in the past, by recognizing the extent to which they were caught up in changing circumstances over which they had little control, and by realizing the degree to which they created results they never intended, history as a discipline tends to create skepticism about our ability in the present to manipulate the future; in place of imperiousness it breeds humility and wisdom. Which in today’s world may not be such a bad thing. 4 volume 21 I fall 2007 Recent Faculty Books Omer Bartov, Erased: Carl F. Kaestle and Alyssa E. Vanishing Traces of Lodewick, eds., To Educate Jewish Galicia in a Nation: Federal and Present-Day Ukraine National Strategies of (Princeton University School Reform (University Press, 2007) Press of Kansas, 2007) Howard Chudacoff, Anthony Molho and Children at Play: An Diogo Ramada Curto, eds. American History (New Finding Europe: Discourses York University Press, On Margins, Communities, 2007) Images (Berghahn Books, 2007) Jorge Flores, Re-exploring Tara Nummedal, Alchemy the Links. History and and Authority in the Holy Constructed Histories Roman Empire (University between Portugal and Sri of Chicago Press, 2007) Lanka (Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag & Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007) Tim Harris, Mark Goldie, James Patterson, Restless Stephen Taylor, Mark Giant: The United States Knights, and John Spurr, from Watergate to Bush v. eds., The Entring Book Gore (Oxford Press, pbk. of Roger Morrice 2007) 1677 –1691 (Boydell Press, 2007) 5 history newsletter Recent Faculty Books Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Paul Buhle, Tim Hector: A Ober, and Robert W. Caribbean Radical’s Story Wallace, Origins of (University Press of Democracy in Ancient Mississippi, pbk.
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